Show mm ENGLAND TO SEIZE SEIZ E F HAIN BRITISH FLEET WILL TREAT DESTINED FOR GERMANY AS contraband step stop taken by englishmen following announcement that Ger german manGov government had confiscated all the grain and flour washington ambassador Amb amdor page at london cabled the tate state detriment ca ell tuesday that the british flett had been ordenel ord orde eiel iett to treat cargoes of grain iraln and flour destined dettl ned for germany or austria aa as conditional contraband subject to and confiscation this step the ambassador explained followed the announcement that ali the german gorman government had decreed confiscation of all grain grata and flour to con consent the nations food supply since the publication ot of the oer vita order tho the ambassador amb amdor bore here count von personally bai has assured the american government that no foodstuffs imported from the united batee or countries countr le would be subject to leisure seizure and press die aiches hare have announced the issuance fit pt a modifying decree making uch such exemption exemptions by the german overn govern ment ambassador Amba eador page aid said the he british had bad informed him film that because the steamship Wil belmina now bound from new now yolk york to hamburg with grain rain and other food had balled before the issuance of the german gerrain decree an exception be made ia her case the vessel 1 would be seized lb it v ae as said aid but the she be released and tier iber cargo purchased eed at invoice price by the british government warning wae was giren given however Ao weTer that other ship fuents ant hereafter of like character when destined for germany directly pr or indirectly would be seized a as well as M the carrying them without compensation being paid |